Mary Trump Issues Dire Warning on 'Significantly Greater' Threat

On the third anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, warned of a "significantly greater" threat on Saturday.

Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building on that day in an effort to stop the 2020 presidential election results from being certified in Joe Biden's favor. The then-president baselessly said that the election had been stolen from him via widespread fraud.

In August 2023, Trump was indicted on four counts by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in relation to the riot, including conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. Trump has pled not guilty and has said that the case against him is politically motivated.

On Saturday, Mary Trump took to X, formerly Twitter, to remember the riot while warning that America faces a "significantly greater" threat today, seemingly referring to the upcoming 2024 election as Trump remains the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

"The threat we face today is significantly greater than it was three years ago. If only the corporate media could find this same sense of urgency," she wrote, while posting a photo of various newspapers covering the Capitol riot.

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Mary Trump's comments come after former Representative Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, and former Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, issued similar warnings about Trump and the state of American democracy.

Cheney, who has been amongst the most prominent GOP critics of Trump, served on the House select committee that investigated the riot, along with Kinzinger and seven other Democratic representatives. In December 2022, the committee published an 845-page report that said the former president was personally responsible for the riot and recommended he face criminal charges.

While serving in Congress, Kinzinger and Cheney were also among the 10 House Republicans who voted in support of impeaching Trump after the riot.

On Friday while speaking to Dartmouth College students, Cheney issued a warning about Trump ahead of the 2024 election, adding her belief that Trump would refuse to hand over the reins of power if elected to a second term.

"He won't leave office. He already tried not to leave office once. So I think there's a lot of living in a fantasy world that's going on with Republicans telling themselves, 'Look, we'll vote for him, it won't be so bad.' It may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast. It will be that bad," the former congresswoman said.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, Kinzinger took to X to share a video warning voters about Trump, adding that the 2024 election is about a single issue, democracy, as the anniversary of the riot aims to remind voters of how to learn from history.

"Today the third anniversary of this stain on our democracy is not a day just to revisit darkness, but rather is a perfect time to expose and shine a light upon lies. I've always said democracies are not judged by their bad days, but by how we emerge from them. And that history has yet to be written," he said.